Scottish Parliament

Written Answers

Monday 17 January 2000

Scottish Executive

Community Care

Shona Robison (North-East Scotland) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive to provide a breakdown of resources allocated for services for people with dementia and their carers within each local authority area.

Iain Gray: The resources the Scottish Executive have allocated for local authorities for services for older people in the current year in £000’s are:

  


Aberdeen City

  

21,206

  



Aberdeenshire

  

18,235

  



Angus

  

12,851

  



Argyll & Bute

  

11,630

  



Clackmannanshire

  

5,108

  



Comhairle nan Eilean Siar

  

4,131

  



Dumfries & Galloway

  

16,222

  



Dundee City

  

18,294

  



East Ayrshire

  

13,044

  



East Dunbartonshire

  

7,492

  



East Lothian

  

9,470

  



East Renfrewshire

  

6,996

  



Edinburgh, City of

  

45,986

  



Falkirk

  

13,695

  



Fife

  

37,081

  



Glasgow City

  

74,453

  



Highland 

  

20,096

  



Inverclyde

  

9,998

  



Midlothian

  

6,434

  



Moray

  

8,072

  



North Ayrshire

  

14,898

  



North Lanarkshire

  

30,908

  



Orkney Islands

  

1,983

  



Perth & Kinross

  

14,827

  



Renfrewshire

  

16,202

  



Scottish Borders

  

13,189

  



Shetland Islands

  

2,060

  



South Ayrshire

  

13,376

  



South Lanarkshire

  

27,184

  



Stirling

  

8,286

  



West Dunbartonshire

  

9,681

  



West Lothian

  

11,109

  



SCOTLAND

  

524,197

  



  These figures are the total of three GAE assessments – services for the home based elderly; residential accommodation for the elderly; and casework and related administration: elderly.

  Information on resources for services for people with dementia and their carers is not available separately.

Community Care

Brian Adam (North-East Scotland) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive what is the average contribution to the total weekly cost of their accommodation and care made by residents in nursing and residential homes.

Iain Gray: An estimated 5,300 older people were admitted to long term residential care during the year to 31 March 1999. Of these 1,200 (22%) received contributions towards the cost of their care only from DSS (pensions and residential allowance). These 1,200 older people are estimated to have contributed around £140 on average per week towards the costs of their care.

  An estimated 10,000 older people were admitted to long term nursing home care during the year to 31 March 1999. Of these 2,500 (25%) received contributions towards the costs of their care only from DSS. These 2,500 older people are estimated to have contributed around £200 on average per week towards the costs of their care.

Education

Nicola Sturgeon (Glasgow) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive when materials on anti-bullying strategies will be made available to schools and whether it will provide further details of any in-school training to be provided.

Mr Sam Galbraith: Bullying is a serious matter and must be addressed quickly and firmly. The Scottish Executive is funding the national Anti-Bullying Network to help schools across Scotland share good practice in tackling bullying. The Network is currently making a range of materials on anti-bullying strategies available to schools and is providing in-school training and a consultancy service to support individual schools in developing effective anti-bullying strategies. The in-school training provided by Network staff is tailored to suit the particular needs of the schools involved.

Education

Alex Neil (Central Scotland) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive what the current status is of the plan to erect a new primary school in Galston, Ayrshire, and when the necessary works are scheduled to begin.

Peter Peacock: This is a matter for East Ayrshire Council as the education authority.

Education

Mr Keith Raffan (Mid Scotland and Fife) (LD): To ask the Scottish Executive what the average cost charged per child per day is for a school meal in Scotland.

Mr Sam Galbraith: This information is not collected centrally.

Enterprise

Fergus Ewing (Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will issue a consultation paper on the provision of a scheme for rates relief for small businesses in relation to the rates revaluation to take effect on 1 April 2000, and whether it will include in such a paper the text of the schemes submitted by the Federation of Small Businesses and Forum of Private Business.

Mr Jack McConnell: I made a statement about this in Parliament on 8 December. I announced a rates discount scheme for small businesses in 2000-01 and that consultation on a transitional relief scheme will follow in January. I intend to examine the case for a rate relief scheme for small businesses over the next 12 months, continuing the useful dialogue already established with representative business organisations, such as the Federation of Small Businesses and the Forum of Private Business. Henry McLeish and other appropriate Ministers will look at support for small businesses and we expect the Enterprise and Lifelong Learning and Local Government Committees to contribute to this review.

Enterprise

Fergus Ewing (Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will obtain from the assessors and local authorities information that may be necessary in order to produce a scheme to provide relief from the burden of business rates for small businesses for the period 2000-05.

Mr Jack McConnell: Yes. The issue of rate relief for small businesses was covered in my statement to Parliament on 8 December.

Enterprise

Fergus Ewing (Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive whether the burden of business rates falls disproportionately on smaller businesses in Scotland and, if so, what measures it is considering to tackle this issue.

Mr Jack McConnell: The issue of rate relief for small businesses was covered in my statement to Parliament on 8 December.

Enterprise

Dr Winnie Ewing (Highlands and Islands) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will make representations to Her Majesty's Government to ensure that Scottish banks or financial institutions will enforce EU measures on money laundering.

Henry McLeish: The Scottish Executive is in regular contact with the UK Government on a wide range of issues, including money laundering.

Europe

Michael Matheson (Central Scotland) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-1791 by Ms Wendy Alexander on 26 October 1999, what the reasons were for late decisions on ESF Objective 3 Grants.

Mr Jack McConnell: I understand that the decisions on ESF Objective 3 grants for 1998 were delayed because of a changeover of administrative procedures. In order to prevent the adverse effects of these delays on small organisations in the voluntary sector which had become dependent upon continued ESF funding, it was agreed to provide the relatively modest funding under section 10 of the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968 to which the earlier reply referred.

Finance

Andrew Wilson (Central Scotland) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive at what discount rate is the "break even point" at which public procurement and the PFI alternative are equal in each PFI project in which the Scottish Executive have been involved to date.

Mr Jack McConnell: Determining the "break even point" is not a formal requirement in PFI business cases submitted to Scottish Executive or prepared by it. The value for money quantitative assessment has been made at the Government discount rate which was relevant at the time. It is 6% (real) at present. The information asked for on each project is not available.

Finance

Karen Gillon (Clydesdale) (Lab): To ask the Scottish Executive how it intends to consult further on a Scottish transitional relief scheme for business ratepayers.

Mr Jack McConnell: I am issuing a consultation paper today following a meeting of the Scottish Valuation and Rating Council. Responses are invited by 18 February.

  I am also issuing today a note explaining the calculation of the provisional poundage figure of 45.8p that I announced on 8 December.

  Copies of both have been placed in SPICe.

Further Education

Mr Kenneth Gibson (Glasgow) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive what the five main reasons for students dropping out of universities and further education colleges in the years 1996-97, 1997-98, 1998-99 were, how many students left for each reason and what the total cost to Scottish higher education of these students leaving their courses early was.

Henry McLeish: The table below indicates the main reasons cited by higher education students, or presumed by their institution, for not continuing their education. Information is not available centrally on the cost of students leaving their course early. Comparable information about the further education sector is not available.

  Table: Reasons given by students in Higher Education Institutions in Scotland for not continuing their education

  


1996-97

  

No.

  

1997-98

  

No.

  

1998-99

  

No.

  



Other personal reasons

  

2,752

  

Other personal reasons

  

2,085

  

Other personal reasons

  

2,173

  



Academic failure/left in bad standing/not 

  permitted to progress

  

1,324

  

Other

  

2,061

  

Other

  

2,043

  



Other

  

827

  

Academic failure/left in bad standing/not 

  permitted to progress

  

1,569

  

Academic failure/left in bad standing/not 

  permitted to progress

  

1,586

  



Written off after a lapse of time

  

776

  

Unknown

  

961

  

Unknown

  

1,110

  



Unknown

  

776

  

Written off after a lapse of time

  

499

  

Health reasons

  

414

  



Health reasons

  

440

  

Health reasons

  

442

  

Written off after a lapse of time

  

315

  



Course result unknown

  

285

  

Financial reasons

  

328

  

Financial reasons

  

278

  



Financial reasons

  

282

  

Gone into employment

  

255

  

Course result unknown

  

272

  



Gone into employment

  

264

  

Course result unknown

  

101

  

Gone into employment

  

231

  



Death

  

50

  

Death

  

44

  

Death

  

35

  



Exclusion

  

15

  

Exclusion

  

23

  

Exclusion

  

19

  



  Excludes those who successfully completed their course, those who continued into the next year, and those who transferred to another institution.

Further Education

Mr Kenneth Gibson (Glasgow) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it is taking to reduce the number of students dropping out of higher education.

Henry McLeish: Following the recent publication of the Performance Indicators report for the whole of the UK higher education sector, the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council are currently reviewing the figures, including those for non-completion, with a view to taking steps and will liaise with the Executive in this regard. A full copy of the Performance Indicators in Higher Education 1996-97, 1997-98 report is available through the Scottish Parliament Information Centre.

Health

Mr Duncan Hamilton (Highlands and Islands) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-90 by Susan Deacon on 30 June 1999, why it cannot arrange for the waiting times for those seeking a first outpatient appointment, including a breakdown by specialist area, to be published on a quarterly basis.

Susan Deacon: Information is not collected centrally on the expected length of time a patient referred for a first outpatient appointment would have to wait for a routine consultation. However, health boards compile this information, often with details of waiting times for individual consultants within specialities, and provide it to all General Practitioner practices in their respective areas, on a regular basis.

Health

Mr Adam Ingram (South of Scotland) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive how many people admitted to accident and emergency at Ayr Hospital and Crosshouse Hospital, Kilmarnock: (a) had been admitted to either of these two hospitals at any point in the previous year, and (b) had been admitted with a complaint related to that for which they had previously received treatment from Ayrshire and Arran health board in the preceding year, in (i) 1994; (ii) 1995; (iii) 1996; (iv) 1997, and (v) 1998.

Susan Deacon: Information at this level of detail is not collected centrally by the Scottish Executive.

Health

Mr Adam Ingram (South of Scotland) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive what were the numbers of cancellations of planned admissions for in patient and day patient treatment due to: (a) unavailability of intensive care or high dependency beds; (b) unavailability of consultants, and (c) patients having a medical condition which prevents treatment being undertaken, in Ayrshire and Arran Health Boards over the past three years, broken down by quarter year.

Susan Deacon: The information available on the trend in all cancellations of admissions by hospitals within the Ayrshire and Arran Health Board area, where the patient’s medical condition is not the reason for cancellation is listed in column 1 of the table. Information on the specific reasons underlying these cancelled admissions is not held centrally. Column 2 of the table lists those patients admitted to hospital in Ayrshire and Arran’s Health Board area and subsequently sent home without receiving their planned treatment due to a medical condition.

  Ayrshire & Arran Health Board area of treatment – Cancellations of hospital admission, and elective admissions where an operation/procedure was not carried out because of contraindication; quarters ending 30 June 1996 - 1 March 1999.

  

 

Column 1 

  

Column 2 

  



Quarter Ending 

  

Cancellations made 

  by hospitals prior to admission1,2


Patients admitted 

  but where an operation/procedure was not carried out because 

  of contraindication3




1996-97 

  
 
 



30 June 1996 

  

37 

  

126 

  



30 September 1996 

  

64 

  

90 

  



31 December 1996 

  

34 

  

124 

  



31 March 1997 

  

44 

  

107 

  


 

179 

  

447 

  



1997-98 

  
 
 



30 June 1997 

  

49 

  

89 

  



30 September 1997 

  

49 

  

99 

  



31 December 1997 

  

45 

  

113 

  



31 March 1998 

  

98 

  

122 

  


 

241 

  

423 

  



1998-99p

 
 



30 June 1998p


60 

  

97 

  



30 September 1998p


67 

  

99 

  



31 December 1998p


41 

  

126 

  



31 March 1999p


181 

  

113 

  


 
 
 


 
 
 



  Source: ISD Scotland

  p Provisional

  Notes:

  1. Based on cancellations made by hospital of admission from the waiting list.

Health

Donald Gorrie (Central Scotland) (LD): To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-630 by Susan Deacon on 3 August 1999, whether it is satisfied with the accuracy of the reporting method used in the preparation of statistics such as those contained in the answer to S1W-630.

Susan Deacon: Statistics on the hours worked by junior doctors in Scotland are compiled from six- monthly returns submitted by NHS Trusts. Each return must be validated by the Chief Executive and a representative of the junior doctors. A common software package has been issued to all Trusts which is designed to analyse information provided by junior doctors and identify breaches of the New Deal targets.

  The group which we have set up to support the implementation of the New Deal in Scotland (referred to in my answer to S1W-630) will among other things carry out an audit of the returns submitted by Trusts under the current system of monitoring and, where necessary, make recommendations to improve the accuracy of future returns.

Health

Dennis Canavan (Falkirk West): To ask the Scottish Executive what has been the response of patients in the health board areas where there have been recent announcements about failures to invite women for cervical cancer screening, and how many women in each affected area have still not been traced.

Susan Deacon: In accordance with the public statement on 25 August 1999 about the problem with the cervical screening call/recall arrangements in Fife, Forth Valley and Tayside Health Boards, the Health Boards are taking steps to review the screening history of the women affected and to invite, where appropriate, the women to attend for a smear. Where appropriate, all the affected women in the three Health Board areas will have been invited for a smear by January 2000. In addition, there are over 4,000 women who have moved away from the three Health Board areas and they will also require to be followed up. This work is being undertaken by the Scottish Screening Programme Central Co-ordinating Unit.

  While this work is progressing it is too early to provide data. However, relevant data will be included in the full report on the circumstances that gave rise to the problem, which is expected by the end of March 2000. This report will be published.

Health

Colin Campbell (West of Scotland) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive whether it is satisfied that the £5 million in administrative savings required of the Argyll and Clyde Acute Hospitals Trust will not be injurious to the smooth running of its hospitals.

Susan Deacon: The Scottish Executive is satisfied that the Trust’s total administrative savings target for this year will not be injurious to the smooth running of its hospitals. These savings will be re-invested in priority areas as outlined in Argyll and Clyde Health Board’s Health Improvement Programme 1999-2004, they will support clinicians in areas of pressure and improve efficiency for the benefit of patients.

Health

Helen Eadie (Dunfermline East) (Lab): To ask the Scottish Executive whether it plans to visit Blairgowrie Farmers’ Co-operative to examine the work being undertaken there in connection with Finland’s berry eating strategy to reduce the levels of cancer and heart disease.

Susan Deacon: Ministers have no current plans to visit Blairgowrie Farmers’ Co-operative.

  The Berry Scotland Project Team, to which, I understand, the Co-operative is linked, was invited to submit a Note of Interest in participating in the Health Demonstration Project initiative set out in the White Paper Towards a Healthier Scotland. The purpose of the initiative is to identify, promote and facilitate best practice throughout Scotland in the drive to improve Scotland’s health. £15 million of resources are being made available for the initiative.

  Notes of Interest have now been received from, amongst others, the Berry Scotland Project Team in respect of two of the Demonstration Projects, "Starting Well" and "The Heart of Scotland". The first will focus on the health of young children; the latter will target primarily heart disease but will also have relevance to cancer and stroke.

  All the Notes of Interest which have been received are currently under consideration.

Health

Kay Ullrich (West of Scotland) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has any strategy to tackle the difficulties being experienced in the recruiting of professional staff allied to medicine.

Susan Deacon: The Scottish Executive is satisfied that the NHS in Scotland has no substantial overall recruitment difficulties for the professions allied to medicine, though there have been local recruitment problems for particular professions from time to time.

  We have in place a Human Resources strategy to address the whole range of employment issues including recruitment and retention. As part of this we have established the Scottish Integrated Workforce Planning Group to make recommendations about how workforce planning can better be integrated with the planning of health services.

Health

Fergus Ewing (Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it will take to reduce consumption of tobacco amongst young people and in particular teenagers.

Susan Deacon: The Scottish Executive is committed to reducing the levels of smoking by children and young people in Scotland and we have set challenging targets to achieve this. The Tobacco Control White Paper Smoking Kills , outlines a comprehensive range of measures which we are now taking forward. Specific action includes steps to improve the enforcement of the laws relating to under-age sales, and targeted health education and promotion activity. Legislation to ban tobacco advertising and sponsorship, which does so much to influence young people to take up the habit, will also be introduced.

Health

Dorothy-Grace Elder (Glasgow) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive whether it supports the creation of a secure unit at Stobhill Hospital, Glasgow.

Susan Deacon: It is for Greater Glasgow Health Board and Greater Glasgow Primary Care Trust to plan the provision of a Local Forensic Unit for Glasgow taking into account the views of local representatives and communities. It is the role of this Parliament to ensure that we set the national strategy and that the Health Board operates in a way that takes into account a wide range of opinion.

  The proposals are consistent with the Framework for Mental Health Services in Scotland, published by the Scottish Office in September 1997, which encourages health boards to organise a range of in-patient facilities from general psychiatry to more specific forensic services.

Health

Dorothy-Grace Elder (Glasgow) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive whether there are any plans to review the services, except cardiac services, provided by Yorkhill Hospital, Glasgow.

Susan Deacon: Work on the optimal disposition of paediatric tertiary services for Scotland as a whole is already being taken forward by the Acute Services Group. That work touches on a number of highly specialised services provided at Yorkhill and the other paediatric centres in Scotland.

  This work needs to be viewed in the context of the model set out in the report of the Acute Services Review (June 1998). That sees Scotland’s tertiary referral centres in Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Glasgow working as a functional entity, with the range of sub-specialty procedures distributed coherently amongst them. This is partly because Scotland does not have the population base which would generate the caseload needed to develop a Great Ormond Street model. But Scotland’s geography also requires a distribution of viable tertiary centres, so that each can serve as a resource for other hospitals in its region. The model fulfils the underlying principle of the Acute Services Review that patients should have local access to services wherever possible, provided their safety is not compromised as a result.

  In order to draw this work together and provide a national perspective within which rational decisions can be taken on the basis on which these and other specialised paediatric services should be provided across Scotland, a sub-group of the Acute Services Group is being set up. I will make final decisions once we have considered the report.

Health

Fergus Ewing (Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive what the rate of hepatitis was in whole blood recipients at the time haemophilia treatment with blood products factors VIII and IX was introduced.

Fergus Ewing (Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive whether there were any cases of undiagnosable hepatitis noticed in haemophiliacs in Scotland before 1987 and, if so, how many.

Susan Deacon: This information is not held centrally. I have noted the question however and the points also raised in S1W-2379 and S1W-2380, and these will be taken into account in the Department’s enquiries into the circumstances surrounding the safety of blood products from hepatitis C. I will keep you informed of the outcome of my enquiries as soon as they are completed.

Health

Fergus Ewing (Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive what is the current recorded death rate of haemophiliacs from hepatitis C and up to what date was that number last reviewed.

Susan Deacon: I refer to the answer given to question S1W-2377.

Health

Mrs Margaret Smith (Edinburgh West) (LD): To ask the Scottish Executive how many patients in each local authority in Scotland were transferred from hospital directly into home care, residential care and nursing homes in each year from 1993-4 to present.

Iain Gray: The available information is shown in the tables. Information on previous years is not available in the format requested. Prior to 1 April 1997, the information recorded did not distinguish between discharge destinations.

  Table 1

  Specialities in acute general hospitals, mental illness hospitals, psychiatric units and hospitals for people with learning disabilities:

  Discharges by local council area and selected discharge destination, year ending 31 March 1998.

  


Discharge Destination - Year Ending 

  31 March 1998

  



Local Council Area

  

Private Residence 

  - Living Alone

  

Private Residence 

  – Living With Relatives or Friends

  

Private Residence 

  (Sheltered)

  

Private Residence 

  – No Additional Detail Added/Other/Not Known

  

Local Authority/
Voluntary Nursing/
Residential/Hostel/
Group Home

  

Private Nursing/
Residential/
Hostel/
Group Home

  

Other Institutional 

  Residence1




SCOTLAND

  

75,419

  

408,001

  

3,241

  

541,297

  

4,190

  

6,472

  

5,683

  



Aberdeen City

  

9,491

  

28,595

  

243

  

1,073

  

379

  

551

  

28

  



Aberdeenshire

  

6,018

  

27,805

  

282

  

2,657

  

201

  

490

  

27

  



Angus

  

212

  

3,474

  

5

  

16,734

  

22

  

62

  

116

  



Argyll & Bute

  

1,781

  

6,898

  

71

  

10,272

  

96

  

159

  

44

  



Clackmannanshire

  

619

  

5,991

  

19

  

2,773

  

65

  

21

  

22

  



Dumf & Galloway

  

4,197

  

20,503

  

52

  

3,862

  

183

  

303

  

79

  



Dundee City

  

792

  

7,630

  

25

  

22,989

  

147

  

147

  

61

  



East Ayrshire

  

204

  

3,439

  

57

  

21,670

  

42

  

63

  

623

  



East Dunbartonshire

  

2,669

  

11,694

  

13

  

6,742

  

50

  

166

  

128

  



East Lothian

  

1,126

  

7,564

  

77

  

9,268

  

100

  

133

  

81

  



East Renfrewshire

  

770

  

5,674

  

128

  

7,889

  

52

  

139

  

38

  



Edinburgh City

  

6,066

  

30,683

  

245

  

50,039

  

265

  

595

  

646

  



Eilean Siar

  

375

  

2,645

  

16

  

3,147

  

79

  

13

  

15

  



Falkirk

  

1,199

  

18,569

  

40

  

4,530

  

118

  

145

  

26

  



Fife

  

7,912

  

52,026

  

172

  

13,269

  

406

  

446

  

162

  



Glasgow City

  

13,885

  

45,531

  

247

  

75,923

  

663

  

630

  

970

  



Highland

  

3,005

  

15,795

  

70

  

21,118

  

166

  

410

  

609

  



Inverclyde

  

254

  

1,403

  

1

  

16,454

  

25

  

61

  

34

  



Midlothian

  

792

  

5,677

  

24

  

9,573

  

49

  

67

  

60

  



Moray

  

1,972

  

12,991

  

43

  

665

  

105

  

209

  

54

  



North Ayrshire

  

491

  

4,662

  

121

  

21,916

  

55

  

113

  

682

  



North Lanarkshire

  

884

  

8,567

  

11

  

59,650

  

120

  

203

  

118

  



Orkney Islands

  

234

  

965

  

1

  

2,012

  

18

  

7

  

2

  



Perth & Kinross

  

387

  

15,872

  

50

  

10,674

  

93

  

535

  

54

  



Renfrewshire

  

580

  

4,846

  

8

  

32,334

  

99

  

22

  

54

  



Scottish Borders

  

1,199

  

16,369

  

935

  

6,055

  

47

  

119

  

244

  



Shetland Islands

  

603

  

3,410

  

27

  

194

  

53

  

1

  

1

  



South Ayrshire

  

287

  

2,573

  

38

  

23,469

  

65

  

96

  

336

  



South Lanarkshire

  

1,608

  

9,491

  

86

  

52,481

  

121

  

225

  

170

  



Stirling

  

1,322

  

9,056

  

47

  

4,679

  

88

  

139

  

28

  



West Dunbartonshire

  

3,642

  

9,736

  

50

  

6,942

  

93

  

117

  

12

  



West Lothian

  

800

  

7,600

  

29

  

1,970,419,704

  

120

  

65

  

39

  



Outside Scotland/ Not Known/Other

  

317

  

2,638

  

23

  

4,110

  

38

  

60

  

71

  



  Table 2

  Specialties in acute general hospitals:

  Discharges by local council area and selected discharge destination, year ending 31 March 1999.p

  


Discharge Destination - Year Ending 

  31 March 1999p




Local Council Area

  

Private Residence – Living 

  Alone

  

Private Residence – Living 

  With Relatives or Friends

  

Private Residence (Sheltered)

  

Private Residence – No Additional 

  Detail Added/Other/Not Known

  

Local Authority/
Voluntary Nursing/
Residential/
Hostel/
Group Home


Private Nursing/
Residential/
Hostel/
Group Home

  

Other Institutional Residence1




SCOTLAND

  

80,324

  

437,865

  

2,859

  

499,759

  

2,921

  

5,739

  

8,372

  



Aberdeen City

  

10,099

  

28,738

  

110

  

562

  

383

  

492

  

32

  



Aberdeenshire

  

6,410

  

28,615

  

260

  

2,022

  

200

  

488

  

35

  



Angus

  

160

  

3,991

  

4

  

16,655

  

13

  

62

  

73

  



Argyll & Bute

  

2,357

  

9,463

  

101

  

7,729

  

94

  

207

  

55

  



Clackmannanshire

  

514

  

6,985

  

15

  

1,894

  

20

  

18

  

16

  



Dumf. & Galloway

  

3,724

  

20,725

  

41

  

4,028

  

153

  

173

  

45

  



Dundee City

  

419

  

8,170

  

16

  

23,495

  

76

  

141

  

23

  



East Ayrshire

  

136

  

3,564

  

0

  

21,794

  

16

  

41

  

133

  



East Dunbartonshire

  

2,634

  

12,399

  

13

  

6,615

  

39

  

96

  

96

  



East Lothian

  

1,456

  

7,350

  

50

  

8,317

  

34

  

99

  

75

  



East Renfrewshire

  

720

  

5,787

  

153

  

7,662

  

35

  

156

  

37

  



Edinburgh City

  

10,071

  

32,363

  

183

  

41,409

  

165

  

494

  

483

  



Eilean Siar

  

177

  

2,118

  

3

  

1,988

  

50

  

2

  

16

  



Falkirk

  

1,613

  

20,931

  

21

  

2,738

  

24

  

124

  

12

  



Fife

  

8,109

  

54,116

  

180

  

11,944

  

302

  

391

  

145

  



Glasgow City

  

12,932

  

45,565

  

245

  

74,101

  

348

  

582

  

581

  



Highland

  

3,351

  

17,327

  

78

  

19,348

  

131

  

321

  

640

  



Inverclyde

  

110

  

1,207

  

1

  

16,300

  

16

  

58

  

22

  



Midlothian

  

1,209

  

5,498

  

25

  

8,735

  

28

  

57

  

56

  



Moray

  

1,542

  

12,963

  

49

  

543

  

71

  

123

  

53

  



North Ayrshire

  

372

  

5,242

  

7

  

21,476

  

29

  

52

  

128

  



North Lanarkshire

  

802

  

8,630

  

4

  

59,930

  

88

  

151

  

436

  



Orkney Islands

  

222

  

892

  

4

  

1,967

  

15

  

10

  

0

  



Perth & Kinross

  

1,305

  

16,549

  

94

  

8,568

  

72

  

530

  

55

  



Renfrewshire

  

643

  

4,073

  

6

  

31,749

  

75

  

9

  

45

  



Scottish Borders

  

891

  

17,514

  

792

  

5,593

  

43

  

107

  

182

  



Shetland Islands

  

635

  

3,625

  

32

  

83

  

38

  

4

  

0

  



South Ayrshire

  

450

  

2,329

  

18

  

23,772

  

46

  

157

  

167

  



South Lanarkshire

  

1,956

  

13,523

  

142

  

44,482

  

124

  

251

  

4,571

  



Stirling

  

870

  

11,195

  

52

  

3,443

  

28

  

123

  

27

  



West Dunbartonshire

  

3,313

  

10,296

  

107

  

6,833

  

63

  

51

  

68

  



West Lothian

  

883

  

14,145

  

37

  

12,857

  

93

  

103

  

45

  



Outside Scotland/
Not Known/Other

  

481

  

4,816

  

22

  

4,355

  

17

  

76

  

52

  



  Source: ISD Scotland.

  p Provisional, acute general specialty only.

  Notes:

  1. Includes Residential Hostel/Group Home, other institutional residence: type not recorded.

Health

Kay Ullrich (West of Scotland) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive to provide details of the incidence, mortality and survival rates in Scotland for each year over the period 1988 to 1998 for (a) males and (b) females in relation to (i) cancer (ii) coronary heart disease and (iii) cerebrovascular disease.

Susan Deacon: Information on the incidence, mortality and survival rates in Scotland for each year over the period 1988 to 1998 for a) males and b) females in relation to (i) cancer, (ii) ischaemic heart disease and (iii) cerebrovascular disease is set out in the tables below.

  (i) Cancer

  Table (A) shows that cancer incidence in men and women increased significantly over the period 1988-96. part of this increase is due to improved ascertainment of cases. survival at one and at five years after diagnosis also improved significantly over the period for both sexes. the combination of these two trends led to an increase in mortality up to 1993 and a decline thereafter.

  


Year of diagnosis (incidence and 

  survival)/year of death (mortality)

  



Diagnosis 
(ICD-9 140-208 excl. 173)1


1988

  

1989

  

1990

  

1991

  

1992

  

1993

  

1994

  

1995

  

1996

  

1997

  

1998

  



Males

  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 



Incidence rate2


446.1

  

450.3

  

465.7

  

465.0

  

483.3

  

491.8

  

497.1

  

493.3

  

523.3

  

-

  

-

  



Mortality rate2


304.5

  

307.6

  

307.3

  

306.2

  

314.1

  

318.9

  

306.8

  

311.0

  

309.0

  

302.3

  

298.4

  



Survival (%)

  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 



At 1 year after diagnosis

  

51.0

  

50.2

  

51.5

  

53.4

  

52.7

  

54.3

  

54.4

  

56.3

  

-

  

-

  

-

  



at 5 years after diagnosis

  

30.5

  

31.2

  

31.9

  

32.7

  

33.6

  

34.7

  

-

  

-

  

-

  

-

  

-

  



Females

  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 



Incidence rate2


436.5

  

439.4

  

469.8

  

462.8

  

476.1

  

478.4

  

483.6

  

487.9

  

512.0

  

-

  

-

  



Mortality rate2


272.7

  

276.8

  

278.1

  

275.7

  

277.4

  

284.1

  

283.2

  

280.9

  

281.3

  

277.3

  

276.3

  



Survival (%)

  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 



at 1 year after diagnosis

  

60.5

  

60.3

  

61.5

  

62.2

  

62.6

  

62.1

  

62.4

  

63.6

  

-

  

-

  

-

  



at 5 years after diagnosis

  

42.1

  

42.0

  

44.0

  

44.4

  

44.8

  

44.7

  

-

  

-

  

-

  

-

  

-

  



  Source: Scottish Cancer Registration Scheme; Register General for Scotland.

  Notes:

  1. ICD numbers (9th revision) for diagnoses are given in brackets.

  2. Crude rates per 100,000 population (based on mid-year population estimates).

  (ii) Ischaemic Heart Disease

  Table(b) for ischaemic heart disease shows a decreasing incidence rate for both men and women since 1992, with 30 day survival rates improving year-on-year.

  Ischaemic heart disease; incidence and mortality rates with estimated survival after 30 days of admission as a percentage of all admissions by sex: 1988-97.

  


Diagnosis
(410-414, 120-125)2


1988

  

1989

  

1990

  

1991

  

1992

  

1993

  

1994

  

1995

  

1996

  

1997

  



Males

  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 



Incidence rate1,3


435.7

  

419.3

  

415.2

  

423.2

  

420.5

  

416.3

  

383.9

  

373.6

  

368.2

  

369.1

  



Mortality rate1


391.7

  

391.7

  

368.5

  

362.9

  

357.6

  

360.8

  

327.1

  

318.2

  

317.3

  

296.0

  



Estimated Survival up to 30 days 

  following admission (%)4


86.7

  

87.5

  

88.8

  

89.4

  

89.8

  

90.2

  

91.0

  

91.1

  

91.5

  

92.1

  



Females

  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 



Incidence rate1,3


292.8

  

295.0

  

286.7

  

290.5

  

297.5

  

296.7

  

285.6

  

281.4

  

276.9

  

270.8

  



Mortality rate1


316.2

  

321.7

  

301.3

  

299.6

  

291.6

  

302.2

  

268.4

  

266.5

  

255.8

  

252.4

  



Estimated Survival up to 30 days 

  following admission (%)4


81.1

  

82.3

  

83.8

  

84.5

  

84.5

  

84.8

  

86.6

  

87.1

  

87.5

  

88.1

  



  Source: ISD Scotland (linked database); Register General for Scotland

  Notes:

  1. Crude rates per 100,000 population (based on mid-year population estimates).

  2. ICD numbers (9th & 10th revision) for principal diagnosis are given in brackets.

  3. Incident cases are defined as the first occurrence of the disease with no history in at least the previous seven years.

  4. Patients counted once each year.

  (III) CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE

  Table (c) shows peak incidence rates for females in 1993 and 1994 with no significant trend for males. The 30 day survival rates show only slight improvement over the period.

  Cerebrovascular diseases; incidence and mortality rates with estimated survival after 30 days of admission as a percentage of all admissions by sex: 1988-1997.

  Rates per 100,000 population1

  


Diagnosis

  

1988

  

1989

  

1990

  

1991

  

1992

  

1993

  

1994

  

1995

  

1996

  

1997

  



Incidence rate

  

174.2

  

174.0

  

176.4

  

179.9

  

199.7

  

206.1

  

199.1

  

203.1

  

195.0

  

197.8

  



Mortality rate1


121.2

  

126.7

  

117.6

  

118.4

  

117.0

  

122.5

  

111.4

  

111.4

  

106.3

  

104.8

  



Estimated Survival up to 30 days 

  following admission (%)

  

77.3

  

75.9

  

77.8

  

77.9

  

79.6

  

78.7

  

79.4

  

80.6

  

79.9

  

80.0

  



Females

  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 



Incidence rate1,3


212.2

  

216.7

  

213.1

  

213.3

  

224.5

  

235.6

  

239.6

  

222.0

  

215.7

  

215.0

  



Mortality rate1


195.7

  

201.3

  

192.7

  

190.3

  

187.7

  

201.5

  

184.7

  

187.1

  

169.0

  

164.6

  



Estimated Survival up to 30 days 

  following admission 

  (%)4


72.9

  

72.3

  

73.1

  

74.0

  

74.5

  

74.6

  

75.7

  

75.1

  

76.6

  

74.8

  



  Source: ISD Scotland (linked database); Registrar General for Scotland.

  Notes:

  1. Crude rates per 100,000 population (based on mid year population estimates).

  2. ICD numbers (9th & 10th revision) for principal diagnosis are given in brackets.

  3. Incident cases are defined as the first occurrence of the disease with no history in at least the previous seven years.

  4. Patients counted once each year.

Health

Karen Gillon (Clydesdale) (Lab): To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will make a statement on the reports and recommendations of the NHS Pay Review Bodies.

Susan Deacon: The Review Body for Nurses, Midwives, Health Visitors and Professions Allied to Medicine (NPRB) has recommended a general pay increase of 3.4% for nurses, midwives, health visitors and the professions allied to medicine. In addition, the Review Body recommended that Grade C and Grade E nurses who have been on the maximum of their pay scale for one year should get an extra increment and therefore pay increases of 7.0 and 7.8% respectively. Senior II PAMs who have been on the maximum of their pay scale for one year should also get an extra increment and therefore a pay increase of 8.4%.

  The Review Body for Doctors and Dentists (DDRB) has recommended a general pay increase of 3.3%, both for salaried doctors and dentists and for pay elements of fees for general medical and dental practitioners. The Review Body has also recommended that £20 million (Great Britain) be earmarked for additional payments to general dental practitioners from April to recognise quality and commitment to the NHS. The Review Body acknowledged that from 1 April consultants will begin to benefit from an additional £50 million (Great Britain) earmarked for payments in recognition of their workload, work intensity and commitment to the NHS arising out of last year’s recommendations.

  I am pleased to confirm that the Scottish Executive has decided to accept the Review Bodies’ recommendations for 2000-01 in full, with no staging.

  These increases will be met from within the allocations made to Health Boards for 2000-01 which were announced on 6 January.

Justice

Christine Grahame (South of Scotland) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive whether during the appeal proceedings any offer was made by Noel Ruddle’s legal advisers to settle the appeal by agreeing to a conditional discharge, and if such an offer was made, what were the grounds for refusing it.

Mr Jim Wallace: I refer to the Lord Advocate’s letter of 10 September 1999 to Mrs Graham which addressed this point. A copy of that letter was placed at the time in SPICe.

Justice

Christine Grahame (South of Scotland) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive, once the Noel Ruddle hearing was in progress, what legal advice was received on the prospects of resisting the application for discharge, in particular given that the responsible medical officer had changed his views to support those of the Carstairs medical subcommittee.

Mr Jim Wallace: Mr Ruddle’s appeal was heard in April and May 1999. The Scottish Executive cannot provide information about the actions of the previous administration.

  On 2 September the Lord Advocate and I gave Parliament a full account of the significant events in relation to Mr Ruddle’s appeal. The additional information sought would mean disclosing confidential medical and legal advice, which I am not prepared to do.

Justice

Christine Grahame (South of Scotland) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive whether, when on 9 April 1998 the Carstairs medical subcommittee told Noel Ruddle and the appropriate Scottish Office departments that it was recommending discharge, further legal advice was sought with regard to Mr Ruddle’s appeal and, if so, what advice was received.

Christine Grahame (South of Scotland) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive, when in March 1998 Noel Ruddle announced his intention to appeal his detention, what legal advice was taken with regard to resisting his appeal, when was it sought, by whom and from whom.

Christine Grahame (South of Scotland) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive what was the nature of the legal advice, given on or around 19 March 1998, which led to the transfer of Noel Ruddle to Broadmoor not proceeding and who gave that advice.

Mr Jim Wallace: The Scottish Executive cannot provide information about the actions of the previous administration.

Justice

Richard Lochhead (North-East Scotland) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive whether it intends to increase funding to local authorities for the purpose of diversion from prosecution services for drug using offenders.

Mr Jim Wallace: The Justice Department of the Scottish Executive is funding 18 pilot diversion schemes to 31 March 2000. Many of the schemes offer support to drug dependent offenders. A report on the evaluation of the pilots has been received and will be considered carefully before any decision is made on future policy and funding. We have announced that an additional £600,000 per annum is to be made available to local authorities for drug and addiction projects, including a major project in Aberdeenshire and Moray.

Justice

Christine Grahame (South of Scotland) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive whether it was on legal advice from the Scottish Office that the responsible medical officer reviewed his opinion that Noel Ruddle should not be discharged and, if so, who gave this advice, and what was the nature of it.

Mr Jim Wallace: I refer to the answer given to question S1W-1354.

Justice

Mr Kenny MacAskill (Lothians) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive to provide details of any meetings, exchanges or correspondence (including the dates of such exchanges, the subject matter discussed and the terms of any advice given) which took place between Dr White, the responsible medical officer for Noel Ruddle and (a) the psychiatric adviser to the Scottish Office, (b) legal advisers to the Scottish Office and (c) the Lord Advocate and the Crown Office after 9 April 1998.

Mr Jim Wallace: On 2 September 1999 the Lord Advocate and I gave Parliament a full account of the significant events in relation to Mr Ruddle’s appeal. The additional details sought would mean disclosing confidential medical and legal advice which I am not prepared to do.

Justice

Mr Kenny MacAskill (Lothians) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Scottish Office initiated an intention to consider emergency legislation in relation to mental health following the House of Lords decision in the case of Alexander Reid and, if so, whether the intention was communicated to Alexander Reid’s legal representatives.

Mr Jim Wallace: The Scottish Executive cannot provide information about the actions of the previous administration.

Justice

Mr Kenny MacAskill (Lothians) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive whether either it or the Scottish Office ever received any representations from Noel Ruddle’s legal agents regarding accepting a conditional discharge and, if so, when such representations were received and why this option was refused.

Mr Jim Wallace: The answer to this question is covered by S1W-1354.

Justice

David McLetchie (Lothians) (Con): To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-813 by Mr Jim Wallace on 17 September 1999, whether the legal advice given to the Minister was to the effect that there was no statable case which could have founded an application for judicial review of the Sheriff’s judgement in Mr Ruddle’s case.

Mr Jim Wallace: The legal advice given to Scottish Ministers was, as stated by the Lord Advocate in Scottish Parliament on 2 September, that there was no prospect of any success and no merit in going ahead with a judicial review (of the Sheriff’s decision in Mr Ruddle’s appeal hearing).

Justice

John Young (West of Scotland) (Con): To ask the Scottish Executive how many defendants are processed through the courts per annum and what the total associated cost is, and what the estimated cost is to the criminal justice system in Scotland each year of postponed or curtailed trials.

Mr Jim Wallace: In 1998, a total of 159,232 persons were proceeded against in Scottish courts for crimes or offences. Figures for previous years are set out in the Scottish Executive Statistical Bulletin Criminal Proceedings in Scottish Courts 1998 , which was published in December 1999. Total expenditure by the main criminal justice agencies, including the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board and the cost of criminal legal assistance, amounted to £1,119.8 million in 1997-98. Information is not available on the cost to the criminal justice system of postponed or curtailed trials.

Land Reform

Fergus Ewing (Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will consider extending the protection of security of tenure to the Carbeth Hutters and whether it will include in its proposed Land Reform Bill provisions which would prevent further eviction of the Hutters at Carbeth.

Mr Jim Wallace: The Land Reform Action Plan published in August 1999 explained that decisions on the need for legislation to give greater protection for those who own property built on leased land would be taken in the light of further research. That research has been completed and is currently being evaluated.

Police

Mr Kenneth Gibson (Glasgow) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive how much it will cost to police the Scotland against England football match on Saturday 13 November and from which budget(s) costs will be met.

Mr Jim Wallace: Five forces were involved in the operation to police the Scotland against England football match on Saturday 13 November. The operation lasted from Friday 12 November through to Sunday 14 November and the costs incurred were:

  


£

  



Dumfries & Galloway Constabulary

  

6,500

  



Fife Constabulary

  

1,000

  



Lothian & Borders Police

  

20,000

  



Strathclyde Police

  

300,000

  



Tayside Police

  

2,500

  



Total

  

330,000

  



  Approximately £60,000 will be recovered from the Scottish Football Association by Strathclyde Police, under the normal charges for the services of police officers at football matches. The balance will be met from forces’ operational budgets for the current year.

Police

Linda Fabiani (Central Scotland) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive how many requests for assistance were made to the Scottish Crime Squad by each police force in each of the last three years for which data is available and how many of these requests were for crimes falling within the definition "a serious crime where more than one police area is involved, or likely to be involved".

Mr Jim Wallace: The information requested follows:

  


REQUESTS FOR SCOTTISH CRIME SQUAD 

  ASSISTANCE

  



FORCE

  

1996-97

  

1997-98

  

1998-99

  



Central Scotland

  

1

  

1

  

2

  



Dumfries and Galloway

  

4

  

4

  

2

  



Fife

  

4

  

9

  

7

  



Grampian

  

5

  

8

  

9

  



Lothian and Borders

  

14

  

9

  

10

  



Northern

  

1

  

5

  

6

  



Strathclyde

  

11

  

2

  

-

  



Tayside

  

7

  

6

  

1

  



Other

  

7

  

16

  

7

  



Total

  

54

  

60

  

44

  



  "Other" refers to tasking by the National Crime Squad and the National Criminal Intelligence Service.

  Investigations conducted by the Squad invariably involve or impact upon more than one police force area.

Public Appointments

Robert Brown (Glasgow) (LD): To ask the Scottish Executive whether it would support public appointments in Scotland being subject to a Public Appointments Committee of the Parliament and, if so, which appointments it would envisage being referred to such a committee.

Mr Jack McConnell: I recently announced that the Executive will embark on a wide-ranging consultation exercise early in the New Year which will invite views on the current public appointments system and on possible options for change.

  The consultation paper will invite views as to whether the Parliament should be involved in appointments made by the Executive and if so, at what stage and in what way. It will also explore the role of legislatures in other countries to see what lessons can be learned.

Social Inclusion

Karen Gillon (Clydesdale) (Lab): To ask the Scottish Executive how it intends to monitor the progress made by Social Inclusion Partnerships in deprived areas across Scotland.

Jackie Baillie: In November 1999 we set out our targets and milestones for establishing social justice and equality of opportunity in Scotland. The implementation of effective monitoring systems within local areas will be an important part of enabling us to measure progress towards these targets, and to learn more about the approaches which are successful. We have therefore recently published a comprehensive monitoring framework for Social Inclusion Partnerships.

  We are making over £300,000 available to Social Inclusion Partnerships to enable them to put their systems in place as soon as possible. Resources totalling £7,000 will be provided to area-based Social Inclusion Partnerships and resources totalling £5,000 will be provided to thematic Social Inclusion Partnerships for this purpose.

Transport

Alex Neil (Central Scotland) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive what is the cost associated with the compulsory purchase of Pollock estate in respect of the upgrading of the A77 and what is the current position in respect of local authority liabilities for the cost of the purchase.

Sarah Boyack: The compulsory acquisition of the Pollock Estate was undertaken by Strathclyde Regional Council as responsible roads authority. The Scottish Executive has no details of the costs. The responsibility for meeting any outstanding costs arising from the Compulsory Purchase Order is being discussed with City of Glasgow Council.